A bibliometric and visual analysis of hospitality and tourism marketing research from 2000–2020
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights
ISSN: 2514-9792
Article publication date: 15 April 2022
Issue publication date: 6 April 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aimed to bibliometrically and visually analyze and review hospitality and tourism marketing studies published from 2000–2020.
Design/methodology/approach
A total of 3,942 articles collected from the databases of Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) in the Web of Science (WoS) along with their references were used for analyses. The bibliometric software HistCiteTM and literature measurement visualization tools, VOSviewer and CiteSpace, were employed to analyze the selected articles.
Findings
The results of the study demonstrated top influential scholars and institutions, intellectual structure and emerging trends of the study topics, and future research opportunities in the field of hospitality and tourism marketing.
Research limitations/implications
First, academic influence of a scholar was evaluated by citations of his/her publications, which did not take the order of authorship into consideration. Second, this study was restricted to the English language journals. Third, other types of published documents related to the studied field such as review papers were not considered by this research.
Originality/value
In comparison to traditional qualitative analysis such as content analysis, bibliometric analysis is a more objective approach to vividly demonstrate trends and performance of a research field, offers unique insights for its advancement with wider inclusiveness of a larger amount of data.
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Citation
Liu, J., Wei, W., Zhong, M., Cui, Y., Yang, S. and Li, H. (2023), "A bibliometric and visual analysis of hospitality and tourism marketing research from 2000–2020", Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 735-753. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHTI-10-2021-0277
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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